it seems I am not clicking with a customer of mine. It’s one thing to disagree on aesthetics – sometimes you just like something and sometimes you just don’t. And maybe I’m just not hitting his sweet spot with this design.

However, despite differences in taste, he also insists that my work is low quality and not professional.

This is a “cheat sheet”, trying to keep it very clean – does this look sloppy, unprofessional, low quality to you? Apart from the fact that you may or may not not like it, does this not meet the standards of a professional?

P.S. we also seem to disagree as to the design of this site: http://www.aisc.org/ – he thinks is is awesome while I think it’s merely ok. To me this is a slightly dated corporate design. Nothing wrong with it, but not something to rave about either. Something I would have done for a corporate client a few years back but not something I would consider as a role model today…

The project is done – he simply didn’t accept my work as professiona, so I’m just finishing this for my own pridel. He asked me to objectively look at it and maybe get other designers opinion and evaluate whether I could really pass this off as professional work. http://www.aisc.org/ is professional, but my work in this case isn’t.

That’s why I came here because I thought that maybe I’d be looking at this for too long so that I’ve been blinded to my own work – because honestly, nobody has ever told me that my stuff isn’t professional. You may like it or you may not like it, you can’t discuss taste, but to criticise it for lack of professionalism and quality … it’s a customer I’ve Worked with several times before and he’s always been happy with the work. So I still don’t quite get it…

I write it off as a loss, but I still wanted some criticism from fellow designers to see whether was missing something blatant here….

chrisatlemon said
Thanks again Mythic
The project is done – he simply didn’t accept my work as professiona, so I’m just finishing this for my own pridel. He asked me to objectively look at it and maybe get other designers opinion and evaluate whether I could really pass this off as professional work. http://www.aisc.org/ is professional, but my work in this case isn’t…....

The truth is, there are a lot of **heads outside. Your work is clean and professional. I like it. Sadly taste is subjective… End of the story.